The military conflict between Ukraine and combined Russian-separatist forces in Donbas (a region encompassing the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces), which erupted in 2014, has damaged one of the largest water delivery systems in...
Freeze, moreover, implies a natural or spontaneous process; whereas the post-hostilities situation in Transnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia—and now looming in Ukraine’s east—reflects painstaking diplomatic efforts...
Recent western attempts to help “solve” the conflict in Donbas Russia’s war against Ukraine in Donbas is understandingly attracting engagement from the international community: apart from the onerous consequences of war...
The Putin regime’s failure to provide adequate support for Russians it has ordered to remain at home in order to stop the spread of the pandemic and the shortcomings of the Russian medical system as a result of that regime’s...
Moscow may be unlikely to launch any major new offensive against Ukraine while the pandemic is going on, Oleksandr Danilyuk, former advisor to the Ukrainian defense minister and now head of Kyiv’s Center for Defense Reforms, says;...
For as long as official cases of COVID-19 have remained manageable inside the Russian Federation, Moscow was able to exploit the global coronavirus pandemic to try to pursue various foreign policy goals (see EDM, April 13). This activism,...
Recent reports that Moscow is deploying Cossack groups along the Russian-Ukrainian border near the Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine are extremely worrisome, as the Kremlin ostensibly used similar units in its initial invasion...
Introductory video by Reece Lynch about his work: “I want to stay here as much as possible. That’s the plan. I want to stay here and keep doing this…” says Reece. He studied filmmaking at Manchester School...
Two days ago, Aleksey Chesnakov, a Moscow commentator known for his close ties to the Kremlin and opposition to the continued existence of Ukraine, said that officials preparing for the upcoming meeting of the leaders of Russia, Germany,...
According to the police, up to 12,000 people took part in the “No to Capitulation” march led by the Veteran Brotherhood movement, the European Solidarity-linked NGO “Sprava Hromad,” Democratic Axe political party,...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
